Patagonia is an enormous, mostly treeless plateau covering all of southern Argentina and nearly 20% of Chile’s total area. It is beautiful and bleak, with stark mountains, fast moving glaciers and an open steppe that is blasted by a relentless dry wind that continually blows from the west. In fact, Patagonia is our new definition of windy. Here we have had howling water laden winds drench us, winds that whip up the waters of the lakes so that waves crash into us, winds that blow grit into your eyes, and winds that blow against you to literally knock you off your feet. We left from Ushuaia in “Peggy” (our Tucan tour bus) and headed towards Rio Grande for a night before crossing the Magellan Straits to Punta Arenas. Nearby Punta Arenas is the Otway Sound
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